Pantone colour of the year 2024: Ways to use Peach Fuzz in your home

Peach Fuzz is not just the fine layer of hair we women get on our faces at a certain age; it’s also Pantone’s colour of the year for 2024.

For 25 years, Pantone has been naming a colour of the year, which is designed to be a representation and summary of the year past and the year to come.

According to Pantone, Peach Fuzz, a hue sitting somewhere between pink and orange, is about inspiring comfort, community, connectedness, quiet, warmth, reassurance, compassion and peace. I don’t know about you, but I need a bit of all of this in my life right now.

What is Peach Fuzz?

It’s ‘80s-inspired, and it’s awesome.

Unlike last year’s colour of the year, Viva Magenta, you can expect Peach Fuzz to have a stronger influence in interiors in the coming years, not just because it’s Pantone’s colour of the year.

You’ll start to see it have a presence as interior designers embrace it in line with other ’80s influences that have been creeping into mainstream interiors over the past few years – you can’t convince me that this colour is not at least somewhat inspired by an ’80s revival in home design. Remember the peach bathrooms? How can you not?

Despite its ’80s roots, I expect people will find it easy to use a colour like Peach Fuzz in their homes, much more so than some of the stronger, more saturated colours of years gone by.

Big box retailers will almost certainly use the colour in things like cushions and small decor.

How to use Peach Fuzz in your home

Completely embrace it. I fear we will see it used in homes in half-hearted, non-committal ways, with pops of peach in homes with very neutral backdrops.

I want to see Peach Fuzz (and all colours) used extensively, splashed across cabinet fronts and in small-scale bathroom tiles.

The concept of extensive use of colour can be scary for people, but pops of colour create high contrast, and it is high contrast that tends to be jarring rather than the colour itself.

A classic example of this is in painting walls. The colour-shy tend to paint one wall one colour (a feature wall), leaving the other walls white, and – boom – you have a high-contrast situation that you will almost certainly tire of.

Ways to style your home with Peach Fuzz

Make it sing with other colours – it’s soft and calm, and arguably feminine.

I would love to see this colour paired with a red that has orange undertones. And if you think I’m mad, you had better hold onto your hats because red will definitely be popular in the coming years.

Peach also looks beautiful with yellow. I paired the two in my niece’s bedroom a couple of years ago because we had a very low-light space that required warm colours to add warmth to the space, and it absolutely did the job.

Here’s the thing with colour trends, though; they should be observed but treated merely as something to inspire you and spark your imagination. When colours are applied in ways that we see repetitively, they tend to die a fast death, and as a lover of all colours, I loathe to see any colour become a bore.

I’m on board with Peach Fuzz. Let’s apply it creatively so we get to see it go the distance.